What next?

[Mark Kohut]

I'm Aristotelian enough to say from the origins (of his writing) on....things get revealed later with resonances, allusions, historical development...
(I won't confess whether I followed my own advice.)....
 
I will say that M & D was the hardest of them all for me to read....those CAPS, those wanderings, the whole nine yards...
Didn't grasp it....until.....
 
Yes, to Morris and others....GR over and over....(one long-time rare plist participant these days, said he had read GR ten times and I felt like a piker.....
 
THAT book (and ATD at least) should maybe be read like the Janeites read Jane A....finish and restart.....in fact...
Pynchon's oeuvre should perhaps be best tackled that way if one is "serious"....the endless story....
 
Hey, let's all answer the writers on a desert island to read if you were stuck for the rest of your days....I used to answer Shakespeare and Chekhov......first for the full range of human experience and expression in mostly over-sized characters.....and the other for all the subtleties of the quotidian working/living life.....
 
Have to add Pynchon now, of course....
 
 



On Wednesday, February 26, 2014 11:34 AM, Tom Beshear <tbeshear at att.net> wrote:
  
Most people will say GR. I'll put in a word for M&D as the most joyous 
of his work. It was my first Pynchon novel and it has always stayed with me. Joy 
is present from the GR allusion in the first sentence ("Snow-Balls have 
flown their Arcs...") to the last ("We'll fish there. And you too.") But GR, 
yes, you must read GR -- the mountain must be climbed, more than once. 


----- Original Message -----  
From: Doc  Sportello  
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>Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 9:12  AM 
>Subject: What next? 
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>My first Pynchon was when I read ATD 4-5 years ago and liked it. Read  Inherent Vice when it came out a couple years ago and liked it. Just finished  Bleeding Edge and LOVED it. I don't know what the consensus is on his latest  but it's my fav of the three.
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>I'm interested in reading it all  now since I hear These last three are ostensibly different than his earlier  stuff. I'd like to save Gravity's Rainbow for last since I hear it's the best.  Given all that, what do you guys recommend I read next? 
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